Arrangements for dealing with offenders--Of a primitive character--Prisoners could not be detained in custody--Often took "leg-bail"--Day of Truce every month--Date and place made known by proclamation--The meeting of the Wardens-- Regulations for conduct of business--Administering the oath--Three ways of trying cases--Bogus bills--Value of goods--Bills "fouled" or "cleared"--The hot-trod-- Baughling--Lord Russell shot--Foster's explanations 97-115 VII. THE DEADLY FEUD. Origin of the expression--Feuds of everyday occurrence-- Occasioned by trifling circumstances--Inherited--Made the administration of the law difficult--Feud betwixt the Kers and Scotts--How occasioned--The Maxwells and Johnstones--A disastrous feud--Battle of Dryfe Sands--Murder of Johnstone-- Lord Maxwell imprisoned--Returns to the Borders--Betrayed by Earl of Caithness--Beheaded in Edinburgh--Ker of Cessford slain--Pursuit of his murderers--How feuds staunched--Bonds of Assurance--Marriage--Pilgrimage--Assythment 116-135 VIII. THE THIEVES DAUNTONED. The "Family Tree"--Man's first right--The King connives at Border reiving--The Wardens often indifferent--The King's visit to Dumfries--Tytler's account of what transpired--The Turnbulls of Rule Water punished--The Earl of Mar in Hawick--Lack of trees and halters--Queen Mary at Jedburgh-- The Earl of Bothwell--John Elliot of Park--The Queen visits Hermitage--Struck down with fever--The suppression of Liddesdale--Buccleuch and Ferniherst--Mangerton destroyed-- The whole district given to the flames--Geordie Bourne-- Found guilty of March treason--Executed--Milder measures-- The Tower of Netherby--Cary's success 136-154 IX. LIDDESDALE LIMMERS. Border keeps and peels--Description of them--Hermitage-- Lord Soulis--Nine-stane-rig--Black Knight of Liddesdale-- Ramsay of Dalhousie starved to death--Armstrongs and Elliots--Maitland's "Complaynt"--Took everything that came to hand--The clan system--Names of Border clans-- To-names--Debateable land--The Scotch dyke--Cary's raid-- Driven to bay 155-180 X. AFTER THE HUNTING. James V.--Border barons put in ward--Sets out for the Borders--Hunts in Meggat--Eighteen score of deer slain-- Cockburn of Henderland--Border Widow's Lament--Adam Scott, "King of Thieves"--Johnie Armstrong--The loving letter-- Basely betrayed--Pitscottie's account--Maxwell's complicity--Ballad--_Blackmeal_--Increase of Border lawlessness 181-200 XI. THE CORBIE'S NEST.